College of Education and Human Development

Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Education Policy Higher Ed

research expertise in OLPD

Studying legal, regulatory, and enforcement practices of post-secondary education policies, our faculty works to shape and improve the landscape of higher education. Many of our faculty possess significant expertise in these areas. See below for profiles of faculty and their research related to education policy higher ed:

Faculty with expertise in this area

Nicola Alexander Nicola Alexander

  • Professor; Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Diversity, and International Initiatives
  • 612-626-3256
  • nalexand@umn.edu

Policy does not always work in the way we expect or want. My research examines the implications of policy for society as a whole, entire student populations, and specified student groups.

Nicola Alexander
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Gresham Donald Collom Gresham Donald Collom

Dr. Gresham D. Collom is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities' Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development.

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Elizabeth Sumida Huaman Elizabeth Sumida Huaman

OLPD 5122 Indigenous Education: Research, Policy, and Practice OLPD 5080 (Special Topics) Qualitative research design: Applied Indigenous methods DSSC 8111 Ways of Knowing OLPD 8101 International development and education OLPD 5132 Intercultural…

Elizabeth Sumida Huaman
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Andrew Furco Andrew Furco

My primary research and teaching interests focus on the measurement and assessment of experiential education, community-engaged learning, and community-engaged scholarship in fulfillment of the public purposes of education.

Andrew Furco
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Karen Miksch Karen Miksch

My research focuses on the law of higher education and the transition to college. Specifically, I am interested in access to higher education from a legal and policy perspective.

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Walter Novillo Walter Novillo

My education background is in human resource development, business, public administration, and law.

Walter Novillo
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Roberto Orozco Roberto Orozco

My research explores questions around race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality with relation to college student activism and student development, queer resistance and queer worldmaking in and outside of higher education contexts.

Roberto Orozco
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Rebecca Ropers Rebecca Ropers

  • Professor; Interim Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Minnesota-Duluth
  • 612-626-9545
  • ropers@umn.edu

My scholarship focuses on how educators create environments that are accessible to, nurturing of, and reliant upon people in our diverse communities.

Rebecca Ropers
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